I think there’s enough expansions and additional content for Imperial Assault that FFG must be seriously thinking about a Second Edition, so I can easily see that being announced.

I wouldn’t expect a change to the scale of the models though, but possibly more integration with the app.

There’s a few more potential considerations.  They could be updating IA because it is competing with Legion, especially seeing as it has a skirmish variant with competitive organised play.  I could see a justification for updating IA to version 2.0 and not offering any sort of upgrade kit for existing products and/or no skirmish rules, specifically to try and draw competitive players into Legion.  If they decide to omit skirmish rules in any potential v2.0, this actually makes their upgrade kits a little easier as they don’t necessarily have to update ALL v1.0 products to v2.0.  If Legion isn’t selling as well as they would like because IA’s skirmish game is eating into the potential audience then it makes sense to only support one and remove the skirmish rules from IA in favour of Legion, which is probably seen as a bit of a Flagship product. You may generate a bit of bad will early doors but it’s definitely something they can come back from – whatever they do someone will whinge.

On the other hand, it may also be that they are going to try and unify Legion and Imperial Assault in the same way that GW and Mantic are now doing with their games.  However I don’t necessarily think this is going to be that easy for FFG because of their use of stat cards that are supplied with the miniatures.  GW and Mantic both use books which can be purchased separately meaning each game is accessible without having to buy the miniatures twice.

And here’s another possibility. Imperial Assault is simply being discontinued.  Maybe they feel they’re spreading themselves too thin or rather spreading the market too thin by having so many Star Wars games.

@lawnor I understand what you were referring to, but the FFG model isn’t really conducive to that end.  When you buy models, whether for Imperial Assault or Legion (or, if we’re honest, any FFG game) you get their rules in that specific game in the box with them.  So if you buy a box of storm troopers for Imperial Assault you get Imperial Assault rules cards, in Legion you get Legion rules cards.  Trying to unify the two games would mean either providing two sets of cards in each box, one for each game making them more expensive, or trying to produce a set of Imperial Assault rules that could somehow make use of Legion stat cards which would be difficult given the very different nature of the two games.  Alternatively they could box up the miniatures in both games packaging and provide only rules for one game in that box, but then you have to buy the same miniatures again in order to play both games.  Trying to unify the games so you can use miniatures in both games would be very problematic I think because of the distributed nature of FFG rules.

The reason GW and Mantic have been a little more successful with that approach is that the rules and the models are sold separately.  I can buy a box models (or several because who ever only bought one box?) and then buy the rules for those models in multiple games without having to buy the miniatures twice.

It is interesting to see that there appears to be nothing even remotely related to IA in their production roadmap.
At the same time the RPG is getting reprints.

btw :  is there a @sundancer clone out there ? 😉

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/293642-asmodee-germany-discontinuing-ia/

Maybe it simply means an end to localized version of Imperial Assault ?

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